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Nerses I the Great (Armenian: Սուրբ Ներսես Ա. Մեծ ) was an Armenian Catholicos (or Patriarch) who lived in the fourth century. He was the son of At’anagenes and his mother was the Arsacid Princess Bambish a sister of King Tigranes VII (Tiran) and a daughter of King Khosrov III. His paternal grandfather was St. Husik I whose paternal grandfather was Saint Gregory the Illuminator. Nerses spent his youth in Caesarea where he married a Mamikonian Princess called Sanducht.
